| 单词 | sugarbarrel |
| 释义 | > as lemmassugar-barrel b. With various substantives defining its specific use, as beer-barrel, brandy-barrel, herring-barrel, sugar-barrel, tar-barrel, thunder-barrel, treacle-barrel.fire-barrel: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > for specific contents meal fat1360 butter barrel1608 beer-barrel1753 water breaker1834 blubber-cask1835 nail-keg1837 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Fire Barrels are casks of divers capacities, filled with bombs, grenados, etc...These are sometimes also called thundering barrels. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. ix. 173 If they burn the Custom-House..we'll lunt like a tar-barrel a' thegither. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiv. 312 He wadna for a' the herring-barrels in Glasgow. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 10 Their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. i. 162 Groceries enough: sugar-barrels rolled forth into the street. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. ii. 40 The beer barrel being empty. sugar-barrel sugar-barrel n. ΚΠ 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. i. 162 Sugar-barrels rolled forth into the street. < as lemmas |
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